Author: SHREVE, CARL,
Title: Romance Calling: Java-Bali-Sumatra-Nias-Siam-Indo China [Cover title]. [First edition].
Description: S.I. [Australia], KPM Line, [circa], 1935. Folio, original printed coloured and illustrated limp wrappers, original cord through spine. [40]pp. Introduction with a coloured illustration by Carl Shreve, profusely illustrated album with many coloured plates and illustrations after watercoloures and paintings by Carl Shreve, an US artist and journalist, original tissue-guards preserved, with rater extensive descriptive text, table of contents with KPM logo in black at tail. English text promotianal Album profusely illustrated after original watercolours by Carl Shreve, printed in Australia by command of the KPM-line (Royal Packet Navigation Company), with sceneries from Java, Bali, Sumatra, Siam, Indo-china. Very good copy. (tiny chip to tail margin of front cover).

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